Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-04-26 | Page 5 | Millions Go in to Great War

MILLIONS GO IN ! I TO GREAT WAR I New York, April 2. War now Is ( H costing the nations of Europe more iH than $90,000,000 a day, according to . H estimates prepared in a booklet to , jlH be issued by the Mechanics and Met' tj H als National bank of this city. Ot 'H this enormous total, the principal H burden falls on the entente .allies. 'H The bank estimates that the cost per t H hour to England, France and Rus- t H sia is approximately $2,500,000, while ! (H the Teutonic empires the cost la in I fH excess of $1,000,000. ! !;H The total cost of the war, if It 1b j jiH still In progress on August 1 next ! ''H will have been $45,000,000,000. OC ', M this sum, Great Britain's share will j ,H have been $11,600,000,000; Germany's ' jH a trifle less, and France's, $9,250,000,- ,' H 000. B Two years of the war, the booklet; 'H states, will coBt six times more than jH the full amount expended In the civil H war; will reach a sum 40 times more jH than the amount of our national debt, . iH and will be 120 times more than Oao jH cost of the Panama canal. jl